Caster attachment



UNITED STATES u PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN H. MORAN, OF LIOKING, MISSOURI.

CASTER ATTACHM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,136, dated May 17, 1892.

Application tiled May' 26, 1891. Serial No. 394,129. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, JOHN H. MORAN, a citi# zen of the United States, residing at Licking, in the count-y of Texas and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Casters, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in attachments for casters.

The object of the present invention is to provide for casters an attachment which will enable a caster tobe readily attached to the leg of a piece of furniture-such as a bed or the likeand which will form a yielding support.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a bedstead provided with supporting-springs constructed in accordance with thisinvention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the lower end of one of the legs. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, l designates a bedstead provided on the end of its legs with staples 2, to which are secured supporting-springs 3, which are interposed between the ends of the legs and the supporting-surface andare adapted to receive the stems of casters 4. The springs are spirally coiled and taper toward their lower ends 5, which are closely coiled, and are adapted to receive the stems of the casters 4, and the said springs form a yielding support for the bcdstead and provide an easy couch and subserve all the purposes of an ordinary springmattress.

The invention is equally applicable to lounges, sofas, and other articles of furniture analogous to beds, and it will be seen that the springs are inexpensive in construction and are adapted to be readily attached to a bed, and they receive Within their lower ends the stems of casters and do notinterfere with the use of the same.

Fromthe foregoing description and the accompanying drawings the construction and operation of the advantages will readily be understood, and it will be seen that by tapering the spring downward and closely ceiling the lower end sufficient strength is gained to hold a caster and support a bed or analogous article.

Vhat I claim is- An attachment for casters, consisting of a tapering spirally-coiled spring designed to have its upper end secured to the leg of abedstead and having its lower end reduced and closely coiled and. adapted to receive within it the stem of an ordinary caster, said spring serving as the means for securing a caster to a leg, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOI-1N H. MoEAN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM S. MITCHELL, E. D. B. CROW. 

